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winter 1994
One day, perhaps, we'll put this entire issue online. Watch this space
Editorial 
Isabelle Cartier
The Chesterfield ice-pails: 
Diplomacy, drinking and silverware in the 18th century
Lisa Hirst
The comb as type-object: 
Eighteenth-century hair care
Katherine Sharp
The rise and fall of fitted carpets: 
Carpet production and design in the 19th century
Sarah Foster
The use of personality: 
Alan Walton Textiles and screen-printing in the 1930s
Victoria Kelley
The shop as shop floor: 
A short history of the cash register, 1878-1939
Stephen Escritt
Who are the public? 
The meaning of design for the common good
Ann Kelly
What is a museum object? 
Natural history and the new museology


other things
Hannah Andrassy & Lisa Hirst
Executive games
Designed in One,  Made in the Other:
New Products of Collaboration between Britain and Japan
Design Museum, London
8 March - 5 June 1994
Leonie Stanton
The magpie millionaire
The Burrell Collection
Glasgow
Lettice Slugge
Sarah Foster & Hildi Hawkins
While the Sun Shines: A Comparative Typology of
Haystacks in the Zakopane Region of Southern Poland
Hypothetical Press, London
Leena Krohn
A room of one's own
Extract from Doa Quixote and Other Citizens. Portraits
Translated by Hildi Hawkins
Christopher Breward
The dandy and the beau
Farid Chenoune, A History of Men's Fashion
Flammarion, Paris
Gillian Naylor
Back to the Bauhaus
Bauhaus Dessau
Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau
Hannah Andrassy
Industry in quiet places
Robert Thompson's Craftsmen Limited and the
Mouseman Visitor Centre
Kilburn, North Yorkshire
Sarah Foster
Eating for victory
The Wartime Kitchen and Garden
Imperial War Museum, London
28 October 1993 - 29 August 1994
Celia Joicey
Technology and nostalgia
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey:  Heart and Home
Design Museum, London
18 January - 3 July 1994
Hildi Hawkins
Untrashing Fabergé
Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
26 January - 10 April 1994
Victoria Kelley
From wonder to horror
Science in the Eighteenth Century:
The King George III Collection
Science Museum, London
Eleanor John
These charming fans
The Fan Museum, London
Christopher Frayling
The lessons of ugliness
Jeremy Aynsley
Letter from Cracow
Report on a study visit to Cracow by the
Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art
MA Course in the History of Design, June 1994
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